Twilight was helping Trixie with some things. "This was sort of short notice for you to show up Trixie. But why the sudden visit?" Twilight asked.

"Family issues. Trixie has a half-sister who's a bit jealous of Trixie thanks to what you've helped Trixie with." Trixie said.

"You never mentioned you had a half-sister." Twilight said.

"That's because Trixie's half-sister tends to torture Trixie. Or used to anyways. It was because Trixie didn't have good magic before. Now Trixie can do many spells she could not before. Which she thanks you for whole heartedly." Trixie said.

"HEY TWILIGHT." Pinkie Pie suddenly showed up out of nowhere.

"GAH!" Twilight exclaimed and fell over.

"Twilight, are you okay?!" Trixie was no doubt worried.

"...You'd think by now I'd be used to Pinkie Pie just showing up out of nowhere, but I'm not." Twilight said.

"Just checking in on you. Ooooo. Whose your guest?" Pinkie Pie asked.

Twilight stared at Pinkie Pie. "...Pinkie Pie, did you forget? This is Trixie. I helped her with her magic after that Ursa Minor destroyed her wagon, remember?" The purple unicorn asked.

"...I'll be right back." Pinkie Pie said and left.

"That was most unusual." Trixie said.

"I hope this isn't the work of Chrysalis again." Twilight said.

"You mean the changeling queen that you messaged and warned me about? Don't worry. Trixie knows how to tell fakes apart from the real thing." Trixie said.

Twilight tilted her head. "How does that work exactly?" Twilight asked.

"When you've used Illusions your entire life, you pick up how to tell whose real from a fake. And Trixie knows your real. Trixie has a sixth sense on whose real and who is isn't from her usage of Illusions." Trixie explained.

"I see. Still, it was odd Pinkie Pie didn't remember who you were. Every one of my friends knows who you are as you got to know each of us during your stay here." Twilight said.

"Well that's where the problem really lies. Trixie could see that it was not a changeling pretending to be your friend. But at the same time, that wasn't really Pinkie Pie as you know her." Trixie said.

"...But that doesn't make any sense." Twilight said.

"Trixie heard of something called a Mirror Pool on her travels. From what Trixie understands, it creates a clone of whoever uses it." Trixie said.

"...Say what?!" Twilight exlcaimed and started sorting through her books.

A bit later, Spike and Smolder soon rushed into the Library with Sweetie Belle.

"Twilight, we've got a problem. Pinkie Pie is litterally everywhere outside!" Spike said.

"...You mean she's made THAT many clones already?!' Twilight exclaimed.

"...What?" Spike asked.

"Hello Spike and Smolder." Trixie said from nearby.

"Trixie, what are you doing in Ponyville?" Smolder asked.

"Trixie is getting away from family for a while. And besides you will need Trixie's help soon." Trixie said.

"...We will? What do you mean?" Spike asked.

"Well according to what I've come up with, seems Pinkie Pie has been creating clones of herself through a thing known as the Mirror Pool. But in order to get rid of the clones and find the original Pinkie Pie, we need to do something that will help us find the real one." Twilight said.

"And Trixie suggests asking many who know Pinkie Pie, and we set up a quiz show. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy." Trixie said.

"...That sounds more like a Pinkie Pie thing to say." Smolder said.

"Well right now, we have no idea where the real one is, so Trixie felt like taking over her job of saying silly things in this time of great stress." Trixie said.

"You know what? That's probably the most normal thing happening today." Spike said.

Sometime later, thanks to the Quiz Show, the real Pinkie Pie was found and the clones were gone.

"Ugh. I'm going to go with my bad on this one girls. I just felt like, with so many things to keep track of, I figured there could be lots more of me to help with everything. Only thing is, things got out of hoof in a hurry." Pinkie Pie said.

"You can say that again. Please don't actually do so." Trixie said.

"I won't. Also, hi Trixie. What are you doing here?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Wait, don't tell me: You're here because of your half-sister becoming super ultra jealous of your new magical talent, right?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"What the-how did you know that?" Trixie aske.

"Just a hunch~" Pinkie Pie said.

"I missed that today." Rainbow Dash said.

"Your friend is weird, but I guess you would get used to that after a while." Soarin said.

Trixie did a double take. "Since when was a Wonderbolt here?" Trixie asked.

"Soarin was actually here flying around with me when the Pinke Pie hoard happened." Rainbow Dash said.

"Yeah, that sort of came out of nowhere. I did notice a strange mare wearing some kind of black and red amulet near the edge of town." Soarin said.

"...That would be Trixie's Sister. You mean to tell me she grabbed the Alicorn Amulet to try and mess with Trixie?!" Trixie asked.

"What's the Alicorn Amulet?" Twilight asked.

"Trixie doesn't know the details. Only that Trixie's mother said to never ever wear it." Trixie said.

"...Come Trixie, we're going to find Zecora. I have a bad feeling about this." Twilight said.

Author's Note

Yep.